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By ALAN JONES
Daily Sports Editor
The current. sports year has,
with a few exceptions, been one
marked by surprising success -
and seems indicative of an even
brighter future.
At the end of the 1957-58 cam-
paign Michigan athletic teams had
hit the lowest point since the late
1930's, and there seemed to be
little reason to expect improve-
ment.
But improvement - in many
cases on the fantastic side-has
been recorded so far in the 1958-
59 season, and by all indications
should continue to throughout the
spring.
Swim, Track Excel
The two most outstanding teams
thus far are a striking comparison:
Michigan's fabulous swimming
squad was expected to win, and
responded by winning everything
in sight by the most astounding
margins ever achieved; while the
Wolverine trackmen surprised the
world by grabbing the Big Ten
title almost un-challenged by!
teams which were supposed to be
on Michigan's par.
Although the swimmers were no
improvement over last year (aside
from individual records and crush-
ing point totals they are really no
more Big Ten and NCAA cham-
pions than a year ago) the track
squad jumped from eighth to first.
Improvements were also registered
by the basketball team, which
jumped from sixth to second; the
gymnasts, who moved up from
third to second; and the wrestlers
who went from fifth to third.
No Improvement
only the football and hockey
teams failed to improve on the
previous year, and despite the
icers' poor season it was the great-
est winter sports campaign that
Panhellenic
Represents
'U' Sororities
Panhellenic Association is the
co-ordinating body foi the 21 na-
tional sororities, the one local
sorority, and two associate mem-
bers on the campus.,
As representative of affiliated
women on campus, Panhel has the
purpose of cooperating in the
maintenance of high social stan-
dards, furthering intellectual ac-
complishment and sound scholar-.
Ship, promoting cooperation among
sororities and: unifying the inter-
ests of sorority and non-sorority
women.
Panhel is headed by the Execu-
tive Council. This council heads'
the administrative chairmen and
the Board of Delegates, composed
of two representatives from each
of the sororities, one representa-
tive being the president.
Executive Council
President: Mary Virginia Tower,
'59Ed. Kappa Kappa Gamma.
First vice-president: Mary Eliza
beth Wyss, '59, Sigma Kappa.
Second vice-president: Phyllis
Esther Levine, '59, Alpha Epsilon
Phi.
Secretary: Dianne Gilbert, '60
Ed. Alpha Gamma Dlta,
Treasurer: Barbara Lea Sutliff,s
Alpha Chi Omega.
Administrative Chairmen
Rushing Counselors: Mary Eliza-
beth Wellman, '60Ed, Alpha Phi.
Assistant: Janet Ellen Van Wag-
hien, '60E, Alpha Chi Omega.
Rushing: Lois Nancy Curtis, '59
Ed., Alphi Xi Delta.
land, '60, Delta Delta Delta.
Public Relations:' Sheila Ann
Stamfli, '59, Delta Gamma.
Secretarial Manager: Nancy
Lynne Moore, '60, Alpha Phi .
-President, Junior Pan-Hellenic:
Beverly Ann Ford, '61, Kappa

Michigan has seen in many years:
ending with two firsts, two seconds
and a thir din Big Ten action.
In most cases the triumphs can't
be credited to single individuals-
for almost all sports take the co-
operation of the entire team. The
victories achieved by the track and
swimming squads were team ef-
forts of unusual proportions, with
almost every individual involved
turning in his greatest individual
performance.
The finishes of the wrestling,
gymnastics and basketball teams
were also due to balarce and depth
- ,although the cagers boast a
number of individuals who have
reaped special award's.
The individual stars are too
many to name. The swimming
team alone boasts a list of cham-
pions that even when limited must
include NCAA titlists Dick Hanley
and Frank Legacki, Dave Gillan-
ders; Big Ten winners Tony Tah
nick, and Ron Clark; and a host
of others like Captain Cy Hopkins,
Carl Woolley, John Smith, Dick
Kimball, Tony Turner, Joe Ger-
lach, Alex Gaxiola, and John Ur-
banczok who added valuable points
in the big meets.
In track, too,,the list of runners
who aided the Conference cham-
pionship is huge. Tom Robinson,
Tony Seth, Dick Cephas, Eeles
Landstrom, Les Bird, and Captain
Mamon Gibson must come first,
although many others aided in the'
'M' landslide.
Individual Stars
Sophomore Don Courriere, with
Michigan's single Conference mat
title; gymnasts Ed Cole and Frank'
Newman on the trampoline and
Bill Skinner and Jim Brown on
the mats; and big M. C. Burton,'
the leading scorer and rebounder,
International
Students
Association
The following students were of-
cers of the International Students'
Association and its various nation-,
ality clubs for the past school year:
P. Krishnamurthy, Grad.,
President
Robert Arnove, '59,
Vice-President
Mary Lou Giesman, '60,,
Corresponding Secretary
Ahmnad Dalati, Grad.,
Recording Secretary
Sergio Scarabello, Grad.,
Treasurer
George Haniotis, ISA,
Membership
Alva Reineman, A&D,
Publications
Suha Cevik Alpayli, '60E, Sports
Abu M. M. H. Rahman, Grad.,
Publicity
Ahmed Belkhoda, Grad.,
Debates and Discussion
Kolawole Ana, 159M,
President, African Union
Abdel Razek Ibrahim, Grad.,
President, Arab Club"
Alan Stanley Tweddle, 161E,
President, Canada House
Richard Yeung, 'TOE, President,
Chinese Students Club
Mark N. Stephanidis, '60,
President, Greek Students Club
Ramesh Chandra M. Patel, Grad.,
President, India Student
President,
India Students Assciation 1
Liang Lee Oey, Grad, President,
Indonesian Club
Kalman Benyamini, Grad.,
President,
President, Israel-American 1
Students Club
Shigetake Suzuki, Grad.,1
President,
Japanese Students Club
Won-Yon Chon, Grad,
President, Korean Club
Jom L Gelais, '60,
President, Latvian Club

Shamsuzzoha Z. Ansari, Grad.,
President, \

in the Big' Ten, highlight the
other winter storts.
But it is not so much the indi-
viduals, but the Michigan system
who must reap the honors. When
it is apparent that almost all of
the teams are on the upswing, and
the list of star performers reaches
the length that it has-then the
schoo litself, and the athletic de-
partment that is responsible must
be given the credit.
Athletic Director H. O. "Fritz"
Crisler, and the many fine coaches
working with him, have made the
necessary steps-both in recruiting
and preparing the athletes - to
pull Michigan in a single year
from the worst to the best in 'M'
sports annals.
And judging by the present stars
-mostly sophomores-and the al-
ready known names on the fresh-
man rolls--the 1958-59 season is
simply the beginning of better
things to come. j
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